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Who else elected chiefs last night?

WESTCHESTER COUNTY FIRE CONTROL CENTER 3/21/2007 RESCUE COMPANY 1. LARCHMONT- LIGHT/CASCADE 2. MOUNT VERNON - HEAVY 76. 3. FAIRVIEW - HEAVY 4. NEW ROCHELLE - HEAVY 5. EASTCHESTER - RESERVED 6. MAMARONECK TWN – MEDIUM /CASCADE 7. BANKSVILLE - MEDIUM 8. HAWTHORNE – RESERVED 9. VALHALLA – HEAVY 10. BEDFORD HILLS – HEAVY/CASCADE 11. YONKERS - HEAVY 12. SLEEPY HOLLOW - MEDIUM 13. VISTA – LIGHT (QA) 14. OSSINING - HEAVY 15. MOUNT KISCO - HEAVY 16. YORKTOWN -HEAVY/CASCADE 17. KATONAH – HEAVY/CASCADE 18. CROTON - HEAVY 19. HARRISON 20. SOMERS - HEAVY 21. SOUTH SALEM - MEDIUM 22. POUND RIDGE - MEDIUM 23. CHAPPAQUA - HEAVY/CASCADE 24. GOLDENS BRIDGE - MEDIUM 25. GOLDENS BRIDGE - EMS 26. BUCHANAN - MEDIUM 27. IRVINGTON - LIGHT 28. CROTON FALLS - HEAVY/CASCADE 29. GREENVILLE - LIGHT 30. PURCHASE - MEDIUM 31. MOUNT KISCO - LIGHT 33. NO. WHITE PLAINS – LIGHT 34. SOUTH SALEM - HEAVY/CASCADE 35. WEST HARRISON - RESCUE/PUMPER 36. MILLWOOD - HEAVY/CASCADE 37. BRIARCLIFF - HEAVY/CASCADE 38. SOMERS – RESERVE 39. CONTINENTIAL - HEAVY/CASCADE 40. PORT CHESTER - HEAVY 41. VERPLANCK - DIVE/RESCUE 42. VERPLANCK - HEAVY/PUMPER 43. 44. BEDFORD - LIGHT 31. 45. PELHAM - EMS 46. MAMARONECK TOWN 47. PLEASANTVILLE – RESCUE/PUMPER 48. MONTROSE V.A. - RESERVED 49. IRVINGTON - HEAVY/CASCADE 51. MONTROSE- HEAVY & PUMPS 54. NEW ROCHELLE – COLLAPSE/WATER 75. THORNWOOD – RESCUE PUMPER 77. DES – TECHNICAL RESCUE 88. WHITE PLAINS - HEAVY 134. PEEKSKILL – RESCUE/PUMPER

Hawkeye on one side and a young John Cellante on the other.

What is the line between information that is allowed to be made public and information that is not? A newspaper article may list the name of victims in a car accident and their injuries. A house fire and the names and injuries/condition of the patients. Where is the line that cannot be crossed? Where can I look up information on this subject?

Regardless of how close the next two departments are; and allowing the Bear Creek chief 10? to 15? minutes to respond; why did it take him the next 30 minutes to realize he needed and call for mutual aid?

Saw a car in Stamford today that was "shrink-wrapped".

BID - COMPETITIVE SEALED BID FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TWO (2) FAST RESPONSE FIREBOATS Bid Due Date: May 31, 2007 Bid Due Date Time: 4:00 PM Non-Mandatory Pre-Proposal Meeting: April 19, 2007 Meeting Time: 1:30 PM Location: FDNY, 9 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, First (1st) Floor Auditorium Bids shall be submitted to the attention of: K. LeGrandNew York City Fire Department 9 MetroTech Center 5th Floor, Room 5S-01KBrooklyn, New York 11201 Bids received at this Location after the Bid Due Date and Time are late and will not be accepted by the Agency, except as provided under New York City’s Procurement Policy Board Rules.

Perry: Firetruck purchase sparks LNG debate By Diana Graettinger Friday, March 30, 2007 - Bangor Daily News PERRY - It took less than five minutes to pass the $1 million school budget, but two hours to pass town money issues including buying a new firetruck. About 50 residents at the town meeting Tuesday night lumbered through 54 town articles, including switching the town’s fiscal year from Feb. 1-Jan. 31 to July 1-June 30 to bring it in line with the school department’s fiscal year. Voters approved that article. Voters also dealt with several other articles, ranging from $28,000 for garbage disposal, up from last year because of an increase in price from the Marion Transfer Station, to a tiny $250 for the Washington County Council of Governments. The article that dealt with the purchase of a new pumper truck for the fire department turned into a minidebate about LNG. Article 20 asked voters to spend up to $190,000 on a new pumper. Of that amount, $87,000 was to come from the fire department’s reserve account, while the rest would be borrowed over 10 years at a rate of 4.09 percent. "Why don’t we wait for LNG to buy that?" a resident asked. For more than a year, LNG has divided this town, pitting family members and friends against one another. On Monday, voters narrowly approved a $3.6 million payment plan from the Oklahoma-based Quoddy Bay LNG in return for a liquefied natural gas tank farm they want to build in the town. The terminal would be on Passamaquoddy tribal land at neighboring Pleasant Point. Fire Chief Paula Frost told residents that the existing pumper was 25 years old. "Most of us wouldn’t drive a car that is 25 years old," she said. She said the aging equipment was a threat to firefighters’ lives as well as buildings in the community. In the past year, she said, firefighters spent more time towing the truck than driving it back to the station after a fire. The fire chief said if the town didn’t buy the pumper now, it would cost more in the future. LNG opponent Gary Guisinger asked Selectman Dick Adams, who helped negotiate the $3.6 million agreement, why he hadn’t included a new pumper in the deal. Adams said it would be one to two years before the tanks were built, and the pumper is needed now. Guisinger then suggested the timeline would be more like three to four years, to which Adams responded, "I don’t know, Gary, you’re the one giving the answer." Tribal member Sandi Yarmal, who lives in Perry, said the truck is needed now. "Personally speaking, I would rather not wait ... and run the risk in the event that Quoddy Bay doesn’t get the financing they require and the project does not go through, then we’ve lost a firetruck or a human life," she said. Voters quickly gave the thumbs up to the purchase. Then it was on to third party requests for money from such groups as the Pine Tree Chapter of the Red Cross and Downeast Health Services. Voters were in the mood to give out some money to most of the agencies, but rejected a $1,000 request from United Cerebal Palsy of Maine. When it came to a $5,104 request from Catholic Charities of Maine, a discussion ensued and voters learned that last year the town turned down a $1,400 request from the agency. The agency still got its money after a record-keeping mix-up at the town office. Asked about the services the agency provides to the town, a woman said they fed and cared for the elderly in Perry. "Would Catholic Charities stop their work with the elderly in Perry if they did not get an allocation under the article?" Perry resident Nancy Asante asked. Voters then approved $1,400 for the agency.

What is FDNY's policy on this subject?

NYMTC Pedestrian Safety Study "Westchester County and NYSDOT have completed the North County Trailway and the County is in the process of completing the South County Trailway. The Westchester County Planning Department reviews capital projects on the TIP to ensure that sidewalks are included in major reconstruction projects. NYSDOT is completing a pedestrian bridge over the Taconic State Parkway in Yorktown as a link in the local trailway network."

WHEN'S THE PARTY?????

As someone who responds to the TZB on ambulance calls, I wouldn't want anyone else out there. The wrecker crews are the best when it comes to helping us, stopping traffic, protecting us from traffic, etc. It spoils us for jobs off the bridge, on the mainline Thruway when we are left to fend for ourselves.

What or Who is this makeover for?

Too many "what if's" for this subject. Officer on the apparatus needs to make decisions. Stop and leave one member to start patient care and the appartus goes to the fire? May be great that you extricated someone, but with out EMS what are you achieving for the injured. We done live in the boondocks. Mutual Aid works and can arrive in an acceptable time period. Even if Elmsford had to go to Ossining. 15 minute response? And there are 7 or 8 departments in between. Unfortunatly we all have to make hard decisions in this business. Nobody's getting sued. Nobody's being negligent.

Cablevision has been slow for some time now in Pleasantville area. I've also heard they are maxed out.

This one is better. Cowboy in a crosswind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHrLB_mlir4...related&search=

So its no different than the other posting regarding responding in personal vehicles. We can all just disregard stop signs, red lights, etc. because we MUST get to the call as fast as we can? THe operator of the ladder is not at fault?

And who's fault was this?

http://www2.cityofseattle.net/fire/realTim...tDatePubTab.asp Seattle FD

Most of us live in small villages/towns where everybody knows everybody. This includes the police. Our Fire Chiefs / Officers need to insist the police strickly enforce all of the traffic laws, personnal vehicles and responding fire apparatus. Have the police enforce the law and not let things slip because we all know each other. We should then see a real decrease in these incidents.

o to this to see the Mars Light. http://www.triliteinc.com/pdf/888mova.mov

Why "57"? and not "17"?

Any idea on the price for this rig?

What fall protection equipment is available for aerial ladders and or ground ladders? With aerial ladders that extend 100' plus and ground ladders that extend up to 40' fall protection seems to be lacking. The video of the firefighter slipping and then sliding down the ladder with a victim would indicacte some type of fall arresting system should be in place. Does anybody know of any systems in place and being used in the fire service?